What is God, or what is soul? This question is asked by many people.
Because the majority of the people, they think God is sitting on the golden chair.
And that God is omnipresent, omnipotent, and almighty.
And most of, majority of the people, they believe is a father.
They don't even believe it's a mother. They believe God is father.
Read Islam, read Christianity. Read Hindu.
All of them think God is our father.
And that's what they think, that God is almighty. Sarva shakti mana.
And it is very difficult to absorb this concept of God, what majority believes.
Because they think God can punish you, God can reward you.
If you don't pray to God, then God will be unhappy on you.
And it will take away everything from you.
And if you pray to God, he will be happy. Amusing word, he, because that's what majority believes, that God is our father.
So, and he will give you something good if you will pray.
But can you believe if God is such a person, almighty person, omnipresent, omnipotent...if a person...
Then why he needs a prayer? Why he needs to be praised? Because our prayer doesn't seem to be more than praise.
Praising God, but God doesn't need our praise. He's almighty.
He knows already that he's almighty, so why he needs to be praised?
So I am telling you the concept of God in people's mind is very wrong.
The real concept of God, I'm not talking concept, the real God is sleeping inside of you.
You are all, basically you are all God.
Because God is not separate from us.
Only the problem is, we are trapped in our body because of our karma.
And God is free from it. So when a soul becomes free from all karmas, from all ignorance, from all sufferings and miseries, from all pain and feelings...
And from sensations, it becomes free soul.
And that is the real freedom.
And that soul, free soul, is very blissful soul.
It's the ecstasy, it is blissful. So basically we are that.
So we don't have to search God somewhere in the kingdom of Heaven or somewhere other galaxies.
Our people think God lives upper, in the sky. No.
You can expand yourself slowly. And your soul has that ability, that quality to be expanded.
Like God. God is expanded.
And God is not a person. God is formless, shapeless, bodiless.
So there is no way people claim that 'we converse with God'.
There is no way they can converse, because you can converse only if God has body. God doesn't have body.
God is bodiless. So whoever is claiming 'we are talking to God,' they are very false people, dangerous people.
So stay away from them, because it is not possible.
Yes, it is possible to converse with God when a person is enlightened, like Buddha, Mahavira. They were enlightened.
'Til they have body you can converse with them. You can talk with them. You can feel them.
But when they leave the last body, they merge with that light. God is just light. God is like a shining.
It is shining everywhere. Somebody asked, "Why God is shining, is there any purpose?" I will say no.
Sun is shining. Is there any purpose? Moon is shining. Is there any purpose to shine?
Just is shining. But you can benefit, you can benefit from that shining.
If you are very much aware to just grab it, to grasp it.
Because you are surrounded by that shining all moments. Moment to moment.
You cannot be separate. You are surrounded by that shining, and your soul is that shining.
So God is shining. It is always, it can be benefit if you know how to.
So God is formless, bodiless, shapeless - only shining. And you can be benefited from that shining.
There is no such a place where there is no that shining. All the million galaxies are surrounded by this shining.
That's what I tell you all the time, God is everywhere.
There is no such a place where there is no God, because that shining is everywhere.
And God knows everything. But the person who can realize that God only can know it, the truth. God is truth.
It's like a shining, everywhere. And you can shine everywhere, but you have to expand yourself.
In order to be free, in order to expand, you need a lot of steps.
A lot of practice, a lot of things to learn. I call it spiritual practices.
I call it sadhana. Then you will know what God means. Then you will know what truth means.
Then you will know soul means.